Hindus Find a Ganges in Queens, to Park Rangers’ Dismay - NYTimes.com

fireflyinthesky:

I mean seriously, please just stop throwing stuff in the water. I hate when people do this in India and now they’re doing it here too. Pollution has ruined so much in India, from “offerings” in rivers, to just straight up dumping garbage in the streets without care.

When I was there a couple months ago, I was so careful to keep any trash with me and deposit it in the correct container at home. Everyone was like, it’s okay that’s what we do in India, but um, that doesn’t mean it’s right!

Even the concept of having a container for trash is foreign to a lot of people, because you can throw trash anywhere.  It’s sad.

I kinda call bullshit on this article. Not that I think littering, even if it involves religious rituals is wrong, because it is - but in makes you think that the Jamaican Bay is only littered by these BIODEGRADABLE objects.

Sure, we’ll turn a blank eye on the diapers, the needles, the plastic bags and other junk in the bay - but those flowers - they are murdering our sea creatures. Sure. Sure.

Also -  The tone in which the article is written really annoys me. 

Source: fireflyinthesky